Drinking-cup



(No Model.)

J. SOHUE. DRINKING 0UP.

No. 402,620. Patented May 7, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN serum, or EocHEsTER, NEW YORK.

DRINKING-CUP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,620, dated May 7, 1889. Application filedNovember 4, 1887. Serial No.254,300. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SGHUE, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful .Improvement. in Drinking-Cups, which Improvement is fully set forth in the following speclfication, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved drinking-cup, preferably made of glass, the same being hereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a vessel in the form of an ordinary glass tumbler with my improvement attached in place, parts being longitudinally sectioned, as on the dotted line m x, in Fig. 3; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same, seen in the direction indicated by arrow in Fig. 1, the

cup being shown as a goblet, the body of which being longitudinally sectioned, as on the dotted line y y in Fig. 3; and Fig. 3, a view of the cup, looking into the open mouth thereof.

Referring to the parts shown in the drawings, A represents the body or bowl of the cup, and B a convex partition placed within the bowl and joined at its edges to the inner surface of said bowl, or it may be made in one piece with said bowl. The partition B .extends to the bottom of the bowl'and divides the space within the bowl into a large compartment, b, and a smaller compartment, a, the drinkfor instance, lemonade with the rind, pulp, and seeds of the lemonbeing placed in said large compartment and drank from the smaller one, a. The partition is formed with openings 0 nearer the bottom of the bowl, through which'the liquid portion of the lemonade flows into the compartment a, the solids being retained in the compartment 1).

At its upper end, at cl, the partition is made to flare more rapidly and form at its upper end with a bead, e, which projects above the upper edge of the bowl. The part 01 and the bead 6 together form a dam to prevent a flow ofthe liquid from the compartment b as the cup is inclined to the mouth of the person drinking. This will be understood by observing Fig. 1, in which the dotted lines f represent some of the positions assumed by the surface of the liquid as the cup is inclined in the act of drinking.

The partition B is tapered as to its Width and convexed on its side turned toward the axis of the cup, the highest part or crown of the convex side of the partition being in a right line extending from the bottom of the cup or bowl up ward. The liquid is prevented from flowing out of the compartment 19 along the gutters g by the expandedparts i of the partition.

Giving to the-partition a convex form with the crowning side turned toward the center of. the bowl is an important advantage, as it allows of an easier and more rapid separation of the liquid from the solid part of the drink. With this form of partition, as the glass is inclined in the act of drinking the drainage is from the ridge or higher part of the partition laterally each way to the gutters g at the sides, thence through the openings 0 in the gutters, as shown.

The foot 0 may be added to the bowl or not, and the latter may be formed, if desired, with a handle of common kind.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to provide a drinking-cup with an interior perforated partition of wire-cloth acting as a strainer; nor to provide a cup with a segmental plate serving as a stop for the liquid at or near the mouth of the cup, as in a mustache-cup, which forms I do not claim as my invention.

What I claim as my invention is- A drinking-cup containing a partition in one piece with the cup and joined to the bottom surface thereof, and extending beyond the upper edge of the cup and terminating in a plane parallel with the plane of the upper edge of the cup, said partition being composed of two conical parts of diiferent inclination and notched at its respective edges next to -the inner surface of the cup, substantially as shown.

JOHN SOHUE.

Witnesses j E. B. WHITMORE, M. L. MODERMOTT. 

